- NewsmagSmart list ads
- NewsmagIntroduction
- NewsmagMain menu
- NewsmagLogo & Favicon
- NewsmagHeader ads
- NewsmagSmart sidebar
- NewsmagSharing buttons
- NewsmagCategory tag on modules/blocks
- NewsmagBackground introduction
- NewsmagTheme colors introduction
It’s bad I would say. Each link internal or external dilutes the power of links on the page. Even menu and footer links count.
So double the number of menu bar links, decreases the power of the other links on the page.
So loading in 60 nav bar links rather than 30 will have a serious impact from an SEO perspective.
You could just use PHP (server side) to detect the operating system being used and then not bother to load in the mobile menu. Same the other way round.
This is how other themes do it like Rehub for example.
This has come to light as I am using your theme in a niche and it’s proving difficult to rank because of how diluted the silo structure is.
My only conclusion compared to other sites I have built, is how the dev team on this theme have coded the nav bar.
Your theme is fast and great to work with, but the menu bar needs a rethink and to be honest, your theme would be even faster not loading in unnecessary code.
It’s serious enough for me to consider using another theme as I am fastly coming to the conclusion after 18 months, a change of theme would result in better organic results for us.
Sorry Simion, I didn’t find the right words.
Example: I use some helpful links in the “top-menu” like ‘classified’ or ‘video’ etc.
These links I need also in the mobile-style, but at the moment I only see categories there.
regards
Mic
Hi,
Indeed the mobile content is loaded on desktop, that would be the current implementation. But I really could not say how exactly this would affect SEO, in a positive or negative way.
This functionality might change if it will be considered to cause SEO issues.
Thanks
Hi,
I don’t quite understand what you want to do. By default (mobile theme plugin inactive) on mobile the same header menu will be displayed. If the mobile theme plugin is active you can choose a different header menu than on desktop
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-mobile-theme/
The top menu is not displayed at all times on mobile. It could be made to appear with a custom code, but only when the mobile theme is not used.
Please correct me if I misunderstood what you are asking.
THanks
Hi,
That could be removed with this code
– https://www.screencast.com/t/3FZ0yVGF3j1y
If you can enter it in the general custom css section in the theme panel, it will affect mobile as well with this result
– https://www.screencast.com/t/ofsBmELkhjU
Or you can enter in the desktop section to work only on desktop
.home .td-main-page-wrap {
padding-top: 0;
}
Thanks
Hello Simion:
– But the problem only started happening when I updated the theme to 8.6 version. Is that normal?
– Also: how can it be a plugin conflict if in mobile the icons show fine?
Thanks.
Hi,
If you are not using the mobile theme plugin the desktop ad will remain in the same position.
This method will not work with the mobile theme plugin active, the shortcode will not be rendered. The mobile theme has ad settings of it’s own that you can use.
Thanks
Hello,
My site is using another language and does not use english. I have found in the following files:
./wp-content/themes/Newspaper/header.php
./wp-content/themes/Newspaper/mobile/header.php
!–[if IE 8]> <html class=”ie8″ lang=”en”> <![endif]–>
<!–[if IE 9]> <html class=”ie9″ lang=”en”> <![endif]–>
Other than manually hardcoding those files, is there another way? Child themes? Or could you give me a code that will fill in the value from wordpress settings (that is correctly set to the language I need)
Thank you
it is only available in mobile version it seems.
Hello,
I have two small problems which I haven’t been able to solve.
1. The mobile menu and search background image will not change from the default image, even though I have put a new image in the theme panel setting.
2. The sliders on most of my main pages (politics, science, tech, history) are too large on mobile, and the changes I try to make in Slider Revolution are not being applied. What I would like is how it is on my Culture page, but I’m not sure why that is correct and the others are not.
I’m also not sure if both of these problems are due to some caching mistake or not.
http://courthousemagazine.com/ (for mobile)
Thank you,
Will
This is one for your developers to look in to
I am just looking at the way the menus are coded.
It seems that in the source code you load both the desktop and mobile version of the menu. Then using client side javascript render the right version.
My concern it that
1. It’s more code loaded onto the page than is needed.
2. Does Googlebot see both sets of menus?
My concern is that the internal link juice is watered down because twice as many links are loaded onto the page than needs be.
Hi there,
I need ‘header-menu’ & ‘top-menu’ as selection in my mobile-style. Can someone give me an advice?
Thanks, Michael
A black coloured strip appears above hamburger menu in the mobile theme.
How to remove it?
Check your Google News sitemap. Theme has zero control over what Google News captures (we’ve been in Google news since the 2005 beta, with 15 sites captured daily). Google checks the sitemap first, then uses its classic bot. If there is no image specified (e.g., a featured image set, showing in the Google News sitemap, or if you have your sitemap set to use multiple images), GN may capture the first or largest image in text after first paragraph as was the case prior to GN specific sitemap.
If you have proper open graph meta tags, and a Google News sitemap; those will be the first cases for images captured. When you use certain images as ‘backgrounds’ even if set as featured they may skip that and use first ‘in post’ image.
So, if you are getting different results with SAME post on two different themes, then YOU need to determine WHAT you are doing differently; e.g., again, if you use a large featured image OUTSIDE the post, or as background on one theme, and as inline image in another, Google may treat those as two different things. Not apples to apples.
Theme provides many options for how images are placed; so if Google is not following your ‘Google News Sitemap’ properly, to fall back on the ‘on page capture’ method, which is outside anybody’s control.
Put another way – nothing the theme developers can do — YOU need to choose a page template that works with GN if they are skipping your GN Sitemap for some reason and/or ignoring your og:image tag(s).
Also note, Google may not show images at all sometimes depending on desktop or mobile view; may show mobile view on desktop, etc. They are in a transition to ‘mobile first’ which you can tell when you see vertical story boxes in borders vs old school laundry list method of display.
NEWS GROUPINGS:
ALSO: if your story is a follow-on (clone or ‘also ran’) of a news item already published elsewhere, they may “group” your news item with those as a “related news…” grouping, and choose the first or last post in that group as the image shown, in certain instances; again, nothing you can do about THAT
Hi,
There are some errors on the website from what I can see
– https://www.screencast.com/t/fNNCWSOaiq6f
The mobile theme is sensitive to caching, it may not work properly under particular configurations. If possible try as a quick test to deactivate the cache plugin currently used, activate the mobile plugin and check if the issue is solved.
Thanks
Hi,
Now it works. As I mentioned above the theme will not work properly with RTL, this is why the issue is happening. I could give you a code for this issue specifically, but others may happen with different elements and other modifications will be necessary.
Try entering this code in Theme panel->Custom CSS section
#td-mobile-nav {
position: fixed;
}
It should fix this problem, but it could create others as well.
Thanks
Hi there,
Same problem here: https://www.elquintobeatle.com/2018/01/17/the-orielles-estrenan-blue-suitcase-disco-wrist-nuevo-adelanto-album-debut/
In mobile works fine, but not in desktop. I tried to flush cache, Cloudlfare and browser cookies.
Hi,
For me they seem to work properly on initial loading of the page
– https://www.screencast.com/t/w2FoN6B97jw
I have tested in Chrome and Firefox, there is no problem. If you have enabled socials that only appear on mobile such as WhatsApp and Viber be sure to drag them last (click and drag the social)
– https://www.screencast.com/t/LUnttkNNJsx
Thanks
Hi,
Visual composer hides the row background on mobile, that would be the default behaviour. It could be made visible with custom code, such as this one
– https://www.screencast.com/t/rN5XtdsorPIB
@media (max-width: 767px) {
.vc_hidden-xs {
display: block!important;
}}
Enter the code in Theme panel->Custom CSS and the video background should be visible on mobile.
Thanks
Hello,
Sorry but I’m not sure how you want to change the look of the menu. You can change the background and colors for the mobile menu from the theme panel
Thanks.
Hi,
They seem to display better now, one below the other at least. I see the titles have a white color, so they are invisible
– https://www.screencast.com/t/3La3P0k9hqjZ
Also the first single image is aligned right, the middle one is center and the last is left. If you could align them all center and also set a different color for the titles they would display better. Or try with custom code, with this result
– https://www.screencast.com/t/iJhwSmwA6
– https://www.screencast.com/t/4aWg1S4u0z
This is the code I used, it should be entered in the Theme panel->Advanced CSS in the phones section. This way it will only be applied on mobile, while desktop remains the same
.home .wpb_single_image {
text-align:center!important;
}
.home .vc_custom_heading {
color:black!important;
text-align:center!important;
}
Thanks
Hello,
If you want to have the same responsive version, please disable the mobile theme plugin.
The footer logo can be changed from the footer section of the theme panel.
Thank you!
Hello,
The option works for both mobile and desktop, yes.
Thank you!
Working on a site for a client. They want a video as the row background on the home page. It works, but not on mobile. How do I enable the video background added in VC to work on mobile?
Thank you
